Not sure how this got to +5 insightful, but to offer a different take:
I've been running windows 7 on two systems since the RC. It crashed once right at install. It's been perfectly stable the entire time on both systems since (several months). The only times I've restarted were to install updates.
I just timed the usb external drive and flash drive, less than 5 sec on each. I haven't tried out a ram swap, so not sure about the licensing. As for the prompt to install, it's not a bad idea for people that just click okay to everything to make them pause before installing their malware.
I haven't received a single personal note from a Microsoft PR person for roughly four years. Instead, the company has taken to sending out very lengthy and somewhat boring cheerleader-type consumer newsletters to the media in an attempt to keep us informed. It's essentially spam with lots of links and no real compelling content, which seems to be the work of someone who has recently finished taking English as a Second Language courses.
And then 6 more paragraphs complaining about their marketing, not the product.
Does this remark seem strange to anyone else ? I, honestly, am not seeing this trend at all, but I've seen it talked about. What's the reality here ?
It's mostly in the portable space. Netbooks, phones, etc. Lots of people seem to be replacing their desktop with a netbook altogether. Office web apps have been growing (slowly) for a while and a lot of people see that as the eventual favorite. There's also services like OnLive for games that are getting decent reviews.
Everything does seem to be moving that way, but at a very slow pace. As decent, reliable broadband becomes ubiquitous (sorry USA) it will probably speed up.
But for that matter, haven't it been established for long already that Win7 is basically Vista
Vista was somewhat unfairly blasted, Windows 7 is being somewhat unfairly hyped. The differences really are trivial, the Vista launch was just poorly managed. If you took an average customer and stuck windows vista and windows 7 in front of them they'd probably not notice the difference.
The mission orbit tracking screen (available for some missions that are in orbit around the Earth, like the International Space Station), shows the current orbit position of a selected spacecraft.
How am I supposed to avoid hitting them if it only shows "selected" ones? The app isn't of much use if I have to go back to my computer to find the others.
Assign a lot of value and you won't be wrong. Apple's iPhone is a shining example of a computer that doesn't allow execution of anything that is not approved by authorities.
Commercial quality assurance and government obedience assurance aren't exactly the same thing.
Computers are still expensive. Those 13% translate to some visible savings to a Chinese peasant.
Not if they weren't the cheapest to begin with. Wouldn't you be skeptical of a USA Go Rural! computer being the best deal? I'm not quite sure what value to assign to an oppressive government's software either.
I trust you already contacted the CRTC and representatives in your area? Maybe made donations or volunteered for parties that oppose this? Perhaps started creating ways to convince the general population this is a bad idea?
Or did you just post 37 expletives and forget about it?
The earth is not the center of the universe. You can't travel back in time and create paradoxes anymore than a hydrogen atom can. The Higgs boson isn't hiding from you and your macroscopic view. You're not special.
Either I'm missing something, or the level of arrogance in this 'theory' is exceptionally high.
Legitimacy of the patents aside, I wonder why an Ethernet technology suit would be leveled against companies that do little more than assemble circuit boards.
Because those companies have money and make some indirect use of the technology. They'd probably sue Coke if they could find a networked vending machine.
I have to wonder what drama will be left for movies in a couple decades from now if imagination is becoming a reality.
Well, I still don't have my warp drive. There's probably still a few other sources of material out there. I think we're safe for a few thousand more years;-).
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Not sure how this got to +5 insightful, but to offer a different take:
I've been running windows 7 on two systems since the RC. It crashed once right at install. It's been perfectly stable the entire time on both systems since (several months). The only times I've restarted were to install updates.
I just timed the usb external drive and flash drive, less than 5 sec on each. I haven't tried out a ram swap, so not sure about the licensing. As for the prompt to install, it's not a bad idea for people that just click okay to everything to make them pause before installing their malware.
Definitely sounds like it:
I haven't received a single personal note from a Microsoft PR person for roughly four years. Instead, the company has taken to sending out very lengthy and somewhat boring cheerleader-type consumer newsletters to the media in an attempt to keep us informed. It's essentially spam with lots of links and no real compelling content, which seems to be the work of someone who has recently finished taking English as a Second Language courses.
And then 6 more paragraphs complaining about their marketing, not the product.
Are you the guy behind the "Mojave" campaign? ;^)
No, of course not. I'm a mac, really.
Does this remark seem strange to anyone else ? I, honestly, am not seeing this trend at all, but I've seen it talked about. What's the reality here ?
It's mostly in the portable space. Netbooks, phones, etc. Lots of people seem to be replacing their desktop with a netbook altogether. Office web apps have been growing (slowly) for a while and a lot of people see that as the eventual favorite. There's also services like OnLive for games that are getting decent reviews.
Everything does seem to be moving that way, but at a very slow pace. As decent, reliable broadband becomes ubiquitous (sorry USA) it will probably speed up.
Overall, Windows 7 is acceptable
Yay! We have XP back. Only took 8 years!
Quite the dilemma.
Just say he's right for the wrong reasons ;-)
But for that matter, haven't it been established for long already that Win7 is basically Vista
Vista was somewhat unfairly blasted, Windows 7 is being somewhat unfairly hyped. The differences really are trivial, the Vista launch was just poorly managed. If you took an average customer and stuck windows vista and windows 7 in front of them they'd probably not notice the difference.
The mission orbit tracking screen (available for some missions that are in orbit around the Earth, like the International Space Station), shows the current orbit position of a selected spacecraft.
How am I supposed to avoid hitting them if it only shows "selected" ones? The app isn't of much use if I have to go back to my computer to find the others.
+1 Godwin's law first post.
Assign a lot of value and you won't be wrong. Apple's iPhone is a shining example of a computer that doesn't allow execution of anything that is not approved by authorities.
Commercial quality assurance and government obedience assurance aren't exactly the same thing.
How can you know what the share is, if you've no legit data?
It's simple math. So you've got 1.3 billion people in China, we sold 244 copies, so that's a 99.9999812% piracy rate. It's obvious.
Computers are still expensive. Those 13% translate to some visible savings to a Chinese peasant.
Not if they weren't the cheapest to begin with. Wouldn't you be skeptical of a USA Go Rural! computer being the best deal? I'm not quite sure what value to assign to an oppressive government's software either.
the Chinese government began offering subsidies of up to 13 percent for residents in rural areas who purchase qualifying computers.
Is this really even a story? Having to buy a "qualifying" computer just to get 13% off doesn't seem like a deal.
This is getting into some scary territory...
It's a little disorienting at first, but after a few segfaults and cold boots you get used to it.
I trust you already contacted the CRTC and representatives in your area? Maybe made donations or volunteered for parties that oppose this? Perhaps started creating ways to convince the general population this is a bad idea?
Or did you just post 37 expletives and forget about it?
Did this happen because I voted Conservative? Or, put another way, would this have happened if the Liberals were in power?
The liberals stated their support of net neutrality earlier in the year.
Legal pirating? I don't believe that's possible.
Arrr, as per the EULA that you agreed to by running this program, I now commandeer this computer.
Math is a concept, abstract, invention of the mind. Likewise so is Time.
Didn't get you an extension on your paper either, did it?
The earth is not the center of the universe. You can't travel back in time and create paradoxes anymore than a hydrogen atom can. The Higgs boson isn't hiding from you and your macroscopic view. You're not special.
Either I'm missing something, or the level of arrogance in this 'theory' is exceptionally high.
The Kindle Killer Arrives
How do you kill that which has no life?
I would like to know the last time one of those online petitions actually worked.
Hmm... it appears never.
On a more upbeat note, slacktivism is our word of the day!
Here's the petition.
Anyone else read that as Use Their Net Innovations?
Legitimacy of the patents aside, I wonder why an Ethernet technology suit would be leveled against companies that do little more than assemble circuit boards.
Because those companies have money and make some indirect use of the technology. They'd probably sue Coke if they could find a networked vending machine.
I have to wonder what drama will be left for movies in a couple decades from now if imagination is becoming a reality.
Well, I still don't have my warp drive. There's probably still a few other sources of material out there. I think we're safe for a few thousand more years ;-).